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The uncertain state of his health probably had great weight in this conclusion, while, on the other hand, the still greater uncer tainty of support from the friends of the administration in the campaign, as stated in our Washington correspondence yester day, may have turned the scales. It is more satisfactory think that the former reason was the sole effective one, as a withdrawal delayed until it accrues chiefly to the benefit of those suspected by the latter theory of prospective treachery would not be an ideal one. It would cer tainly have been far better if Mr. Blaine had announced this conclusion months ago. His friends were entitled, if he reached this decision, to know of it in time to fully mature their choice of other candidates. It he retained the hope that his health would permit him to make the race, and now finds the opposite to be the case, he had, of course, no alternative but to decline. Any other theory of the delay of his withdrawal presents a very discour aging view of politics. The declination, of course, leaves Presi dent Harrison far in the lead as the only candidate about whose name any positive organization is centered. But in the four months that intervene between this aud the day of the convention it is possible that opposition to his nomination of decided strength may develop. There are too many active politicians at outs with the administration and too general a recogni tion of President Harrison's weak points for the expectation of a nomination by ac clamation. The politicians will be likely to gravitate to the support of Alger; but McKmley presents an ideal candidacy, not as an opponent of Harrison, which his pledges would prevent, but as a compro mise, if the opposition should, as is not im possible, render it necessary to seek a dark horse. The next four months will be pregnant with events that may decide the fate of Republicanism. It is clear that the Re publican party will need a strong candi date this year. The decision of the com ing sixteen weeks is likely to involve the question of defeat or victor-. a question or piunciplk. The recent declarations of President Harrison and Governor ilcKinley placed those eminent political leaders on record plainly against the shaping of Congres sional districts so as to give one party an advantage over the other. In view of their position some very strong expres sions of disapproval are to be expected irom'them concerning the Congressional apportionment bill which has just passed the Ohio Senate and is expected to go through the lower branch of the Legisla ture -hUIi a rush. This measure, according to the pub lished summary of its provisions, rivals the most brilliant efforts of Southern shoestring districting. The lines of the proposed districts stretch across the State like a zigzag streak of lightning, and are; wholly without the curved regularity of a weather map. Ten of the districts are stated to lie about one hundred miles long; and the respect paid to Governor Mc Kinley's rule for fair apportionment is illustrated by the fact that this bill is drawn to give the Republicans fifteen Congressmen, the Democrats five, and to leave one in dottbt, a district in which the Republican vote does not exceed the Dem ocratic by over five per cent of the total Of course, the fact that this gerrymander is for tlie benefit of their own party will not deter Hainson or McKinley from raising their protect against it. To keep silence would be to confess their belief that the gerrymander is immoral only "WJicn tncir party loses by it rOl'Dtin VOTE FOR SENATORS. The action of the Republican commit tees in Lawrence and Blair counties with regard to the Senatorship introduces a novo! and satisfactory feature. Instead of leaving legislative candidates to 6eek polit.cal sustenance by pledging them selves in advance to this or that Sena torial candidate, they have provided for a vote of the Republicans at the primaries on the United States Senatorship. The vote, of course, would be a binding pledge on tlio legislative candidates nominated at the caucus. The example is one that might be copied with advantage all over the Stale. It would in the first. place, if generally adopted, give an unmistakable expression of the wish of the people something that even Pennsylvania legislators dare not disregard atter it has once been made clear. It would greatly curtail the bus iness of "setting up" candidates by the different Senator-aspirants, who move, speak and have their political being at the cost and by the will of their Senatorial foster-parent. It would greatly diminish the possibilities of inducing the legislator, by direct or indirect means, to change his losition after he reaches the Legislature, lor the man who betrayed the wishes of those who elected him could consider his public life as definitely terminated. There is an excellent opportunity this year for putting the popular experiment into active practice. While it may take years to secure the election of Senators by the people, it need not take as. many r . ,: m- , months to put into practice the rule of nominating Senatorial candidates by the popular vote of each party. " A PACKED HEAttfNG. A remarkable illustration of the manner in which political methods are placed above the public good is presented by the composition of the sub-committee of the House Ways and Means Committeo to draw up a report on the operation of reci procity. It might be supposed that the policy of securing from oilier countries a reduction or abolition of duties on products which the United States can sell to them, in ex change for the reduction or abolition of duties on imports which all parties in this country agree to, was a matter which the public was qualified to estimate for itself. But on the supposition that it is a matter which requires investigation in order to give the country full information, it is self-evident that what is needed Is impar tial inauirv and a fair statement of the truth. The question is whether the com merce of the nation is increased and the market for the products of American workers extended by this policy. On a question involving the prosperity of the nation the people want only the truth, and any attempt to prejudice or pack the com mittee which is to report on the subject is a distinct avowal that a transient political advantage is of more importance than the truth about a commercial policy affecting the welfare of the people. In this view it is important to learn that Mr. Springer, Chairman of the Ways and Means, has so constituted the sub-committee having this subject in charge that not even in a minority report can the policy of reciprocity gain an unprejudiced hearing. It is "an ingenious flank move ment," according to Democratic authority, that he accomplished by appointing Thomas B. Reed as the minority member of the sub-committeel Mr. Reed is well known to be bitterly opposed to Mr. Blaine, and he lias not hesitated to openly express his dislike and contempt for the reciprocal policy. Springer's action is therefore tantamount to a declaration that not only will the majority of the commit tee be swayed by the Democratic preju dice against this commercial policy, but the minority shall be inspired by personal and political dislike to itschampion. The idea of giving the American people fair and impartial statements on a subject which affects their prosperity is nowhere beside the grand purpose of widening the feud between Blaine and Reed and turn ing out campaign material on a one-sided hearing. Of course, a report from a committee so constituted will not have any more value than so much waste paper, except as a demonstration of the practical politician's proneness to placoparty advantage above truth and the public welfare. THE tOJIMTJXITY'S LOSS. The death of Adjutant General William McClelland, which occurred yesterday afternoon, after his illness of several weeks, will be sad news to the large circle of the deceased soldier's friends and acquaintances. It had been hoped, up to a lev. '-vs ago, that the severe illness of the Adjutant General might terminate more favorably, but the past two days had prepared his friends for the worst Captain McClelland, as he was known to all Pittsburg, had a career which was closely identified with this city, and which this city can contemplate with just pride. As a soldier he sustained the reputation of Western Pennsylvania with conspicuous gallantry, and all his honors in military life were the reward.of his conduct on the field. In civil life, while modest and un assuming, he was ready in al" efforts for the public welfare, and as a politician his good reputation was unsmirched. His service as the executive officer of the National Guard of Pennsylvania showed his talent for that position, and, though covering less than a year of active work, earned him recognition as the best Adju tant General the State has had in the present generation. The State at large, and Pittsburg espe cially, sustain a grievous loss iu the death of William McClelland. AH, without re gard to party lines, will unite in mourning his demise and honoring his memory. HOKS' GREAT IDEA. Mr. Bowers, of California, who last week undertook to instruct the Demo cratic majority in the House as to their proper course, presents -himself in the light, not only of our old friends Right and Left Bowers, but also the Joker. Mr. Bowers is a Republican, but,iu bis demon stration to the majority of the policy which they must pursue, he makes tlie humorous confession that as he has abjured the hope of shaping the national policy he will be content with placing himself in a position to rally around the old flag and an appro priation. Mr. Bowers seeks to impress upon the Democratic mind that what the people want is appropriations. Especially the popular hunger is for liberal appropria tions to complete the survey of unsur veyed lands, to improve the harbors of the Pacific coast, and for other purposes es pecially.calculated to interest the Pacific slope. The popular demand, speaking through the voice of the Republican Bowers, informs the Democratic majority that if they will give the people plenty of appropriations their political future will be assured. Yet notwithstanding this assurance there may be Democrats who are stolid enough to doubt the grateful news. Bowers' own party tried that in a legisla tive body not so long ago that we need to have forgotten the name of the Billion Congress. The popular indorsement of that policy was not so overwhelmingly en thusiastic as to convince the Democi.its that Bowers' game will take all the tricks. That statement that President Harrison and Secretary Tracy did the whole Chilean business "because Mr. Blaine could not re member w hat had taken place two hours bo fore," may provoke the retort that the Pres ident's memory is not the best in the world, cither. lie ha forgotten all about those civil service refonn pledges on which lie was elected, and his message declaring the Chilean answer nntirely satislactory dis played a singular forgetfulness of the fact that exactly tho same assurances in the pre vious correspondence hud been ofiicially de clared by him to be wholly unsatisfactory. It is strong evidence of the progress ot, the ago that a statue or tho late Cardinal Newman is to be erected in the city where Latimer and Ridley wero burned as heretics. Men arc judged in an era of tolerance by their lives inore than by their beliefs. isEW Yoek City is to be congratulated on its possession of citizens who, actuated purely by a desire for the public welfare, are public spirited enough to draw up and In troduce a bill for tho ellicieut cleaning of its sheets. If the bill pass the Legislature other cities will be deprived of their privi lege to boast that their streets arc no dirtier than those of New York. Many people will regret Blaine's deci sion, bnt all will agree that disappointment is better than suspense. THn present House of Representatives has not made any decidedly good 'record by " V i- -v , . - -. Jjts-.t' . .-.-- ..-.S, ...srtt!i!'&3dGiisl).i.- V ... -, ... - .. -,.'j -"kiA. 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"While school education is every year being modified to further its usefulness, too much stress cannot be laid on tho saying of tho First Napoleon, "The future destiny of tho child is always the work of tho mother." State rights, in the light of the con stitutionality of tho anti-lottery postal law decided, yesterday by the United Statos Supreme Court, are practically a possession ot tho past, remarks the Now Orleans Times Democrat. As the decision dealt entirely with the right or the United States Govern ment to regulate the United States mail, this outbreak indicates u conviction that the modern Ulea of Statos rights is that the States shall exercise that power. So doubt the criminals will be duly grateful for the publication, by the New York Tribune, of portraits of six leading de tectives. It is to be hoped that the pictures are even less life-like than tho average. The feeling of pity for Mrs. Osborne, which is strong in London, is right and proper, and is in contrast to the emotional sentiiucntalisin which often leads the pub lic astiay in petitioning for the pardoning of criminals. Mrs. Osborne has done all that was possible to palliate her offense, and siuce the principal sufferer from the crime is content to let the matter drop, the law having been vindicated, a release is in order. One of the doubtful' blessings that come with warmer weather is the decoration of the city corners by the loafers who have re cently been so delightfully conspicuous by their comparative absence. It is interesting to note that Mr. Blaine's letter declaring that ho is not a candidate comes just six days earlier than the Florence letter or 1SSS, That document, which was given out on February 13, was longer than the one which appears in our telegraphic columns; but the shorter one leaves no room for the doubts and reservations that were alleged to exist between the lines of the let ter of four years ago. This country has profited by the crop failure which brought starvation to Russia's millions. There is for this reason a special call on us for assistance, aside from the very instincts of humanity. It would be interesting to know where the New York World got its idea that Salisbury threatened to meet the passing of a Homo Rule bill.by the Commons 'with the creation of Tory peer? No Homo iiule bill can pass the Commott while Salisbury is Premier, and when lie is not Premier he can not make peers. Accuracy is of course un important, but it is interesting. t Valentines are to be a greater feature than ever this year. Well, we suppose the sentimentalists must have some safety valve now that Christmas nnd New Tear's cards are practically abolished. Sax ITranciscoans have taken a new departure In raising a subscription to pur chase the old City Cemetery in order to bandit over to tho Government for coast defense purposes. The movement is ascribed to patriotism, but no doubt there is some localism too in the idea that the city will gain by its security. A NOniiEMAN on his way to marry a millionaire's widow can well afford to treat tho seizure or his baggage and effects with philosophical contempt The announcement that Mr. Thimas C. Piatt is opposed to a second term for Harrison causes the New York Advertiser to think "that Mr. Hariison has either given Mr. Piatt too mucn patronage or too little." He has done both: Ho has given too much for Mr. Harrison and too little for Mr. Piatt. Is toe Louisiana Lottery emulating the example of the coon in coming down, or is it imitating another indigenous animal by playing 'possum! The Pilgrim Fathers would no donbt be scandalized, if they were at hand, to see a model of the Mayflower, manned by "real Boston ians," take part in a procession of which another float is to represent, "wine, woman, and song." Times are changed and ever changing. A St. Louis invention to provide street cars with more standing room is good, but a provision for a few more seats would have been better. The conjunction of Jupiter and Venus is just passed and we have Blaine's letter and a terrible lire in Now York already. Is it possible that thero can be no connection be tween tho astronomical event and these dis asters? These coincidences are so mislead ing. FiY0RITS OP FAMjS. The President has recognized Adolph Rosenthal as Consul General of the German Empire at San Francisco. Jimmy Whistler, the artist and crank, has been mado an officer or tho Leglou of Honor by the French Government. The Misses Schenck, nieces of the late George II. Pendloton, who was formerly Minister to Germany, have gone to Italy. Tun Queen of Holland uses the purest white writing paper, very thick, with crowns and armorial bearings of gold, scarlet and blue. President David Starr Jordan, of the Stanford University in Calilornia, says that lie is tho heaviest man that ever as cended the Matterhorn. Colonel James H. Lane, of Lane's Confederate Brigade, is now professor of civil engineering at tho Agricultural and Mechanical College, Auburn, Ala. Comte Huges de Beaumont, of Paris, grandson of Mr. John Abat, formerly a well knonn merchant or New Orleans, will ex hibit a picture ot the World's Fairat Chicago. Mrs. Moses P. Handy, upon whose hus band devolved the task or promoting the publicity of the Columbian Exposition, has jnst completed a novel which treats ol South ern Hie during and immediately subsequent to the war. Hon. William Walter Phelps, the United btates Minister to Germany, has arranged to leave Cairo on his trip up tho Nile to-monow. Ho will be accompanied by Mrs. Boardmau and the Misses Boardman, of Cleveland, O. The royal family of Portugal has de cided to retrench personal expense.-. His Majesty, the King, has announced recently that tho balaries of public functionaries were to be reduced "and that the law reduc ing salaricashould be applied first to his own family. The late John Jay Hawkins, fonnery con nected with the office of the First Auditor of theTieasury, was noted lor his wondeiful memory and tor the fact that he was one of three custodians appointed by aecictary Sherman in 1S78 to deliver $1CO,COO,OGO iu United Slates bonds to the Rothschilds in London. PHILADELPHIA TO THE RESCUE, Three Thousand Tons of Keller Goods to Be Sent to Russia Tills Month. . PniLADKLruiA, Feb. 7. At a meeting of the Rusilan Famine Committeo yesterday a dis patch was sent to .Miss Clara Uartou, of the Bed Cross Society, saying Philadelphia would, on February 15, ship 9.000 tons or goods to Uusia and offering to transport all irrain that arrived before that date. It was also decided to send telegrams to J the Governors ot lowa, i isconsin, Minne sota and Indiana to send all the provisions they can control, A TRAMP'S LETTER. I WRITTEN FOB TlIE DISrATCH.l One day last week, I had a letter from a tramp. I take my correspondent's word for it. That was the only name which he subscribed at tho end ot his epistle "A Tramp." I can think of few experiences more prof itable than the getting of a good, long, hon est and out-spoken letter from a tramp, six or seven days every week. The tramp is one of the unknown quantities in our. indus trial and social, problems. Nobody is able to speak for him, and he hlmseir keeps a dis creet, or perhaps, an ominous silence. Ho is outside of all the combinations. He belongs to no brotherhood. He never meets to for mulate a constitution and a set of by-laws, and to draft a platform. Ho keeps his rights and his wrongs quito to himself. Some people say that when tho tramps do organize tho Social Devolution will begin. Tho tramps arc the Goths and the Vandals, who are wnltinsr, as their counterparts In the old days waited iu tho s.ivago forests, to rush out and turn the whole world Upside down. There have always been tramps, bocause thero have nlways been lazy people who have preferred begging and stealing to the more conventional and monotonous fashions of getting a livelihood. But to-day, I am told, thero are tramps who aro not lazy good, willing and industrious tramps, win are outside Of the mills and workshops be causo they are crowded out. Some peoplo will not bellove that. One of the clearest headed lawyers of my acquaintance said to me the other day that every poorest man in Pittsburg can be a capitalist if he wilL Tho lowest-down man in the biggest mill, by dint of industry and perseverance and economy and good sense can work up into a position which will enable him to becomo a stock holder in the establishment. I wish I could believe that. "Work for All "Willing Workers. This matter ot the c;ght-hour day has at the heart of it, I understand, thegrievanco of a disproportion between the workers and the work. There is not work enough to go around. Let each of us, then, w orkan hour less that there may be room for our brother, the tramp. Yet I am told by employers of industry, In whose judgment I have Just cause to confide, that there is no reason why there should be a tramp in Pittsburg. Thero is work enough, they say, for every able-bodied man in this com munity. 1 wish I could get at tho real truth in this tramp-question. The Idea that the working men generally have, so far as I can learn from talking with them, is that the employers are above all else desirous that thero should be more workers than there is work. They want an army. of tho unem ployed to be encamped outside the factory walls as a menace to their own workmen. They want to be able to say to any dissatisfied worker, "Very well, if you don't like it, take your things and go. There are twenty men out-doors who will bo glad to get your place." They thank God, llko the pious merchant quoted by Mr. John Brisben Walker in his paper on "The Church and Poverty," that iron sells at a high figuie, while labor is a drug on the mar ket! To them it is a mark or the wise and beneficent disposition of Providence that labor should bo cheap: that there should bo moio workers than there Is work for them to do; that there should be an army of hun gry, homeless and penniless tramps. We might as well say out the plain truth. There is nothing gained for anybody by tell ing lies, or by tiying to persuade ourselves that pleasant imagination is the same thing as practical reality. One of the great needs On both hides is the need ot mutual under standing. If the honest workman and the honest employer c,ould but get.together in a fair and equal and brotherly conference, with all the lools anl knaves and bigots on both sides shut out, a great deal might bo gained. Is there, or is there not, a lack of woik for tho hands of men willing and eager to woik? Is there, or is theie not, a desire on tho part of employers of labor to keep men starving in reserve, In order to depress waes? I am all tho time saying to discon tented workingmen, who answer theso two questions in the worst way, that they do not adequately understand either the spiiit or the difficulties of Xhe employer of labor. They do not appreciate tho immense com plexity of the pioblem. Nor do they realize that, while the capitalist may not bo quito so anxious as the workman for a change in the conditions the capitalist having enough to eat and to wear, and a decent house to live in yet the capitalist Is reallylnteiested, really has his heart in the matter, and wants to see a solving in the fairest way of the great problems of distribution. The capital ist simply does not know what to do. And who does know? Why, wo are n6t able yet, it seems, to agree even as to the simple facts in the case. From the Ecclesiastic Side. Under these circumstances it is a good thing to get a letter from a tramp. My friend, the tramp, did not address him self in his epistle to tho economical ques tion. He did not tell me, as I would have pieferred, how he came to be a tramp, and why he continued to bo a tramp. He ap proached the great social question from the ecclesiastical side. Ho informed me why ho never went to church. Even that Is a valuable piece of inrormation. When tho Goths and Vandals broke down the Itoman Empiro they had some religion. In a rude way they were Christians. At any rate,thoy reverenced the Christian Church. But our Goths and Vandals'or tho roadsides and tho street corners, when the timo for battering down comes, will begin by breaking the windows of the churches. Indeed, a friend of mine, a workingman who never goes to church, said to mo only a day or two ago that the gencial opinion of tho laboring classes is tliat the Church is subsidized by the capitalists. Tho Church, in tho estima tion of the tramps, is on tne side ol" money. I had spoken or the difficulty that is fonnd to-day in getting the poor "into our beauti ful chuichcs." This is the tramp's text. -I say no wonder," he writes me, "they aro so beautiful and so cold that a poor man is out of place in them, and unless he is. well dressed ho is not wanted. Ho is not told so, but by the wa y ho is treated he knows it. I went through it. so I know. And God knows I am p,oor, but not so poor as to let the Chinch give mo another slap." The trump isright. lr wo want to attract the tramps c will have to build churches, that are attractive to tramps. No donbt but a good many of our ecclesiastical structures are too olabotitely furnished. The carpets werenotlfliorwitha foiethought of muddy shoes. The cushions wore not chosen to harmonize witti old clothes. There ought to bo a tramp on the building committee or every Christian church. Still it was not the Church Itself that slapped this tramp, as I read In his letter.' That was donp by the church peoplo. The most elaborate, magnificent and uorgeous church in Christendom is St. Mark's, in Venice, and it is crowded every day with poor people. It has a large congregation of tramps, and they all enjoy It. Tho beauty of It does not drlvo them away. Tramps are not indiffeient to bcantv. Everybody is better lor beauty. What wo really need is not less beautiful churches, but moiebeauti ful Christians. Where the Tramp Is in Error. We are not any of us good enough Chris tians. And yet, I venture to say, that we aio most of us better than tho tramp gives us credit lor. This tramp's lctterlsindicativeor the general spirit that the poor have toward tho rich.not only in the Cnurch but out or it. This man was ill-treated by somebody in some church. Ho went at once to tho con clusion that all people In all churches have an antipathy to tramps. That was a wide inference to make, and, I venture to believe, a most unfounded one. The chances are that tho tramp's ill-treatment was note than half of It Imagined. Men In his position havesensltive Imaginations. Thntis natural. They fancy that everybody is looking at them. They are usually mistaken. It Is true, of course, that the Sermon on the Mount is not yet adequately lived up to. It is easier to love our neighbor as ourseir in the abstract, than it is when our nelghfior sits In ragged dress beside us, and crowds us with his threadbare elbows. It is timo that some Christatn people show less sense and thoughtrulness than they might in at tiring themselves for church. But, really, are there very rnanyT That old Jest about people going to churoh to see other people's clothes Is It really alive yetT Where In thls'clty can be found an obtrusively dressed congregation; Christian peoplrf are some times possessors of good clothes: but in Pittsburg thoy keep them for social occur rences; they do not wear them to put to shame their poorer neighbors In tho house ot God. The trouble Is with all the tramps that they think all the well-dressed world Is turned against them, whilo there Is nothing thnt the well-dresseu world at present, whether in church orout of church, would hall more gladly than an opportunity to really help. those" who are down. Wo want to under stand the tramp. Wo want the tramp to undevstand us. We'do not yet know how to get either of these desires accomplished. Bnt when that understanding comes, there will bo a sensation of mutual surprise. "We will find that wo. have in many ways been micjudgingeach other all along. PSAYEBS PAID THE DEBT. A Mortgage "Which "Was Liquidated in a Queer Manner. New York, Feb. 7. Speci-d. Mrs. E. M. Whlttemore, who it in charge of the Door of Hope, is rejoicing ovcra gift of$15,0j0 which she says has como to this home for fallen women entirely through the efforts of prayer. It enables Mrs. Whlttemore to pay offa $15,000 mortgage which has been hang ing over the property for a long timo. "For somo time after the Door of Hope came into my possession as a sacred trust," she said the other day, "the mortgage on the house seemed displeasing to the Lord, and last summer he placed a burden of prayer on me concerning it. I had faith to believe that tho monov would be forthcoming before the mortgage expired, and told my friends that before next Juno the mortgage would cer tainly be wiped out. I had not any concep tion then where tho money was coming from." "My frionds were incredulous, but I as sured them my prayer would be answered before next summer. On January 13 last, a dear friend of mine, a woman who had taken a great interest in our work, asked me to give her a little time, as tho had somo important matters to talk' over with me. I did not realize until sho told me what her mission was, and I was totally unprepared when sho quietly said: 'I believe God wants me to wipe that amount all out, and on ono conditio that my name be withheld, I will hand-you a check for $13,000 for the pur pose.' " Mrs. Whlttemore says that sho was nearly overcome by the offer. Only a short time ago she refused quite a sum of money on account of the dishonorable way in which It had been obtained. THE L0CTEBY DISTBUSTED. Morris Letter Has No Effect in "Weakening tho Opposition of tho Antls., New Youk, Feb. 6. A dispatch received by Charles B. Spahr, one of the editors of tho CArtjffcm Union, from Colonel Harrison Parker, editor of the New Orleans New Delta, tho organ of the anti-lottery party, says: "We will push the tho light to a finish. It is war to tho death. Wo havo no rolianco on the Morris promises. Tho Foster ticket will march on to victory." Mr. Spahr, who attended the convention at Tiaton Kouge in December, has been fol lowing the campaign in Louisiana with special care and has been in constant com munication with tho loaders of the anti lottery movement. Speaking with reference to the Morris letter he says: "Unless a Gov ernor and Legislature hootile to the lottery are elected the business of the lottery com pany cannot possibly be brought to an end before January 1, 1S95, and would then, probably, be allowed to continue without authorization in the constitution. With the State machinery in its hands the lottery might easily call a constitutional conven tion and secui e a I echat ter without submit ting tho proposition to the people. Many of -I the anti-lottery people believe that Mr. Mor ris himself, who is a millionaire with Influ ential social connections In New York and Boston, would gladly give up the fight and retire from tho lottery business with the $15,009,000 or $20,000,000 ho Is reported to have accumulated; but it would only be too easy for him to dispose of bis interest to other men. TENXTS0Y3 LATEST EFFORT. The laurels of royalty hang heavy upon the head of England's aged poet. Brooklyn Citizen. ,, Xord Halfrkp's poem on the death of tho Cuke of Avondalo appears to be another case of tho ill results of neglecting good advice. St. Paul Pioneer Pr. Lord Tetsxtson'b poem on the death of the Duke of Clarence was only 17 lines in length, but very gushing for lt3 size. The criticisms it has been attracting in tho London jour nals are generally longer and much more pointed. Philadelphia Ledger. The 17 trashy lines In which Lord Tenny son commemorates tjio virtues of the Duke of Clarencoaro muoh better than his poem of a few years ago entitled "Tho Fleet," or to put it more correctly they aro not so utterly bad as "Tho Fleet." St. Louis Post Dispatch. Tub critics are laughing at Baron Tenny son's lines eulogizing the late Duko of Clarence, and tho adjectives "tender, rever ent and pure," which the poet applies to the young Prince especially excito their mirth. Undoubtedly the verse3 are baronic rather than Byron ic.iVeu) y'ork World. Barox Tesnysos'8 poem on the death of tho heir presumptive is ridiculed as "gnsh." Maybe it is, but Mr. Tennyson has written some of the best poetry in the English lan guage. It should be remembered that it is very hard for a Baron to write poetry, es pecially when ho is writing it as a Baron for his stipend as Jioct laureate. St. Louis He public. KEW FISH TOE THE OHIO. A Quantity of Blacic IJass and the rirst Pike ETer I'laccd In tho It!er. Stecbkxville, Feb. 7. Special. The first pike ever placed in the Ohio Itlvcrwero emptied into that stream yesterday by William Lantz, Superintendent of the Ohio Stato hatchery at St. Mary's. The1 flsh wero brought hero in tho new car of the Ohio Fish Commission, "Buckeye." Tho car contains 12 large tanks for carrying flsh, and is equip- peu wiin every convenience uoin lor tne enroofthe flsh nnd tho accommodation of Superintendent nnd his helpers. Of the MOO flsh placed in the river a fow were black bass. Theso were a span long and will spawn before another year. An other trip will soon be mado to this county, when streams and ponds will lie stocked w lth black buss and other gamy fish. DEATHS I1EEE AXD ELSEWHERE. Mrs. Alcey 'C. Van-rlio, Centennrlan. Mrs. Alcev Chase Vaughn died last week In Hie hamlet of DaVIsvIUr, In Connecticut, aged nbout 101 'ears. She w.is born In Exeter, Conn.. on Julv 21. 1731. a ml In 1310 she n;n married to Ax.iph Vaufchn. ho did In 1S3J. She ljad eleven children, twenty-two grand-children, forty-six gre.it-j:randch!ldrciif and to great-grcal-jrraiid-(hildreif. For many cars she had had yearly an anniversary (fathering nt lierhninc-lii the town or East Ureeiiwhirh. and on July 21. is 11. she cel ebrated her lOOtli birllidiy anniversary, one hundred and three guests attended. One of Mrs. Vaughn's sisters. Mrs. Virtue Ileynolds. died not long ago. aged 'H Tears. A ftrcat-grandaunt lived to Be considerably more than 100 ears old. The bearers at her funeral ere four grandchildren. Obituary Note.- GILBEBT VOUCKE. the German poet and novel ist, is dead In Berliu. josem Maiicek. formerly City Treasurer or Philadelphia, died In that city last night. Hear Admiral axuiikw Buysox, U. S. N.. retired, died yetterday at his residence In Wash ington ii. the Tutli year of his age. To-ICEE, the blind chief of the Iowa tribe of Indians In the Indian Tereitory. is dead. Te-Hce ws a descendant of the old Black Hawk nobilltv. lie has ruled the Iowa since White Cloud's death. . Box. William A. MortoX. ex-Mayor of Lan caster, died vesteiday aflernoonof paralysis, -nged M. He was for 3 ears connected with the InUlli geneerut tnalclty and was prominent in Masonic circles. C'OLOXEL Georoe Walker, one or the oldest aud best known Masons Iu Northern Illinois, died atFrccport. III., Friday, or tlie trip, aged 82 vears. He had been Auditor and Commissioner or Clinton county. Pa. Jabed C. Greoore, one of the most prominent members of the Wisconsin bar, died yesterday morning at Madison', from the effects of a surgical operation, aged (W. He was a native of New York and ran for Congress In that SU.ite. and also In "Wisconsin, on the Democratic ticket. He was postmaster at Madlsou, under Cleveland. ACSTIX B. SXVOER, aged 67 years, died of grip at Bellcronto Saturday. He served throtgh the Mexican war and was a Captain In the Fourth and afterward the Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers In the Civil war. He resigned on -account or 111 health in 1864 and was elected Lieutenant Colonel of the Twcnty-tlilrd Emergency rcfrliucut: He was a prominent Mason. TO ABOLISH POVERTY. "There are many good suggestions that should undoubtedly be put Into force to ameliorate the appalling state of things now existing. I have myself been into rooms whero flvo and seven families lived huddled together," says Mrs. Maud B. Booth In the New lork World. "I havo visited courts, alloys and tenements where sanitary laws were utterly disregarded and the very air breathed posttlonce. I have seen hundreds ofpeoplowho hndno place or shelter dur ing tho cold of a wintry night but somo en tryway or doorstep, and I Have heard that cry which no woman's heart can over forget the cry or starving children. Rcg.nl n lions snouid be enforced to prevent tho terrible overcrowding in the tenements. The sanitary condition of things should be Improved, and it would indeed be a boon If work could bo provided for the many who nre anxious, but unable to procure employ ment. The awful number of saloons should certainly be lessened, and the houses of ill ramp, which 'aro now tolerated, should be closed. Snitablo night lodgings, such as those provided in our shelter brigade, for the many who are now homeless and penni less, would save, ahl how many men front reckloss despair and woman from shame. Yet, when I say that all these thlnits will only losson tlie ovil and not remove tho cause, I do not wish it inferred that they should be Ielt undone. Far from it. The sooner thoy nro done the bettir for the lair name of our country." She further said that the Salvation Army is teaching tho paor to have more ambition in life, is transforming tho outcasts into good citizens. If all could bo taught this lesson then poverty would bo driven out and a millennium would dawn. "When the Poor Are Rich. Belva A. Lockwood has some character istic observations to make on this subject. In her letter she says: "First Be content with your lot! "Wealth and poverty are relativo terms. The poor farmer or minor who has enough to eat and to wear, a wife, children nnd tho comforts and Ipve of a home, is rich. He eats well and sleops well. "Second Legislation should be snch as to imposo the minimum of burdens by way of tariff and taxes on all of the necessaries of lifo required by the poor, and when imposed to meet the necessary requirements of the burdens of the State, the revenue should be drawn largely from the luxuries of life. Tlie tendency of such legislation will be to equalize tho possessions of the rich and the poor. "Third When from untoward circum stances, bevond the control of man, by a disastrous fire, a flood, a failure of crops and a famine, a town, a city or a State may be come impoverished, it becomes the dnty of tho Government to afford neceslsary assist ance, not as a charity, but because govern ments are instituted among men lor neces sary protection. The good of the State, as well as that of the individual, requires this. Not only should food and clothing, but pay ing labor. be supplied. It is always Detter to furnish employment to persons in reduced circumstances than to give money. Sound Money and Lots of It. "Foukth A sound currency and plenty of the circulating medium for all of the ne cessities of trade and commerce have much to do with the financial success of the busi ness portion of a community, and this al ways involves all of the smaller dearers' and depositors who depend upon the larger ones in the caso of a money stringency. It would not havo taken much or a prophet to fore tell that the last year would be fraught with bank failures and financial disasters, and that they would carry with them ruin and dismay to many a house of heretofore unim peached standing. Tho withdrawal of bonds from the nationnl banks in the payment or the public debt and the necessary contrac tion or the enrrency engendered thereby have borne the legitimate results. There is no reason why the general Government It self should not Issue nil of the money neces sary for tho use of the country and be.re sponsible for its redemption. "Fifth The education of our children Is, to a very large extent, wrong, and especially that of the female portion, and in a large number of instances entails upon them pov etty and misfortune. I would have com pulsory education and compulsory lanor taught the child, commencing with his 7th year. The industrial school is undoubtedly to becomo the school of the future. Both mind and body of the child should,. be culti vated, anu at the expense or the state, as the good or tho State requires it. Every child of the commonwealth, whether of rich or poor parents, male or female, should he taught some trade or proresslon by which iio may be able to earn a livelihood, and be proficient in it. They should learn tho use of money, lie taught economy,, nnd seir-de-nial ir necesary, learn the 'effects of al coholic stimulants and narcotics on the human body, and that exercise only will perfect the human system." Faidi In the Middle Classes. Miss. Henry Ward Beecher says that tho trouble is that the little the unculti vated earn goes to waste because they don't know how to manago it. Iu speaking of the redemption, she says: "Such redemption must come through the efforts of the ribh, or rather perhaps from those who have neither poverty nor riches. If thoso who have an abundance of this world's goods, instead of indulging In lavish expenditure, would from their lovo for their children teach them the true value of money and tho proper nseof It, these would be prepared, if misfortune came, to meot and conquer poverty by the courage and in telligence which their education and intel lectual advantages gavo them. But if thev have neglected thus to train their children and are themselves equally ignorant, what can thev do ir adversity overtakes them? They will not know, even as well as those who have always been poor, how to take care of themselves, and therefore they can not help to abolish poverty. "Who can? If nny. It must be the work of those usually called the middle classes, who, without abundant wealth, havo always en joyed a comfortable living. All through their lives they have felt it no humiliation to tnkecareof their income and to bo care ful In their expenditures, contriving how to secure the greatest comfort from whatever money they find it necessary to expend. So, if misfortune cous upon thorn, thej- will not allow themselves to despair, hut boldly face tho evil, and by untiring energy and per-everance they will conquer in timo nnd may reasonably hopo to regain their former position." Hellevf s in the Golden Kuli". Grace Greenwood says thnt the ques tion is ono which sho could not really at tempt to settle so that it ould nover come unacalu. Her modus operandi would be a stern enforcement of the golden rule.com pelllngwll rich people the world over, on pain or death, confiscation and cremation, to accept and put into piactice that divine lnw even though they strip themselves or nil olse "golden." She is inclined to hclievo that only the nntlior of the crtlden rule, only the divine originator and organizer of the universe can abolish human want and nns- Frances EVWHlard advises tho poor people I to give up tobacco, drink and gnmbling. Sho also tninics mo enu womu uoreacneuuy giving women tlie right to vote, and then suggests economic reform: such as (1) tariff for revenue only with incidental Srotectlon; (2) by the introduction of i-mettnlisnif (U) the nationalizin gnr all means orcomiminlcatlon and transit: (1) the introduction of physical and" industrial training into all departments- of our educa tional system: (5) the in t reduction of co operation in place .of competition in tho wage svstem: (b) tho formation of national and international boards of arbitration, to which all differences should be submitted, whether between countries or between the employer and tlie employe. ME. CHILD3 A HEW Y0BKEE. The Philanthropic Plliladelphlan Pur chases Pine lieshlence Site. Port Jervis, N. Y., Feb. 7. Special. George W. Child, of tho Philadelphia Ledger,' is to become a resident of Pike county. He has purchased what Is known as theold'Brooks factory property, in Dela ware township, near Dimrii'.-ui's Ferry. The deed w.is recorded in Pike soiinty lass week. This property Is 011 the romantic Dingm.in's Crull. and iiicludoi the now world-lamons Deer Leap Fulls, Factory Falls, High Falls, and numerous other cataracts of great beautv. Thero ate also several hundred acres "of forer, and the sjriot is one or the most picturesque in the Delaware Valley. Mr. Childs intends to lay ont a park and build a baionial mansion on tho property. Thepioperty uas purchased from Edward F. Hoffman, the Philadelphia lawyer, who has a flue summer residence at Silver Lake, near the Childs purchase. A New Pastor for McKeesporr. McKEEroRT, Feb. 7. Special. The Cen tral Presbyterian congregation, a wealthy church 1 ecently organized, has issued a call to Rev. C. B. Hatch, who was for many years pastor of the Dravosburg church. It is understood Rev. Mr. Hatch will accept and assist In building a, hundsome edifice nt Cen tral Park during the coming snmmor. THE C08GBESSI0I.AL PE0OEAHKE. Some tf ork of Interest Looked for Since UuleS Have Been Secured. Washixotojt, D. C, Feb. 7. The House or Representatives Is at last erjulpped with a code of rules for Its government, and the wnyisnow clear for legislation, which may bo expected to begin in earnest this week. During tho period.of two months spent in the House in its efforts to organize committees and provide the necessary rules for Its guidance the Senate has been working steadily, and as a consequence, has secured a considerable advantage In the passage of 63 bills and joint resolutions. The pro gramme this week includes at least one measure or great popular interest, namely. Hie Paddock bill to prevent the adulteration and misbranding of food and drngs. Accord ing to notice given by tho author of the bill it will bp called up for consideration imme diately aftor final action is had upon the bill relating to tho public printing and binding which Is now tho unfinished business. The Idaho Senatorial contested election case will bo brought to tho attention of the Senate at the earliest possible moment, and as it touched thb privileged question or the rittht of a Senator to a seat on the floor. It will be kept before the Senate until aflnal conclusion is reached. Some time Wednes day will be devoted to the delivery of eulogi. s upnn the lato Representative Honk, or Tennessee, and Senator Palmer may ad dress the Senate on bis bill proposing tho election or Senators by direct vote or the people. A number or public building bills aro in a position to be easily reached. A feature of the week's proceedlnes will be kept from observation of tho public behind me ciosea doors 01 tne senate, jor ins ex pected that in executive session will be fought out the contest over the nomination of Postmaster Rathbnn, or Elralra, wherein Senator Hill has taken issue with tho Presi dent, and perhaps also the contest growing out or the opposition of the Indiana Senators to the nomination of Judce "Woods, of Indi ana, to be one of the new Circuit Judees. Under the new rnles the House, after the Introduction of the report or bills, may devoto itseir to business relating to tho affairs of the District or Columbia. No bills from the District of Columbia Committee aro yet on the calendar and it is not ex pected that the district will take up much of the legislative day. Contests are ex pected over several matters which will bo called up in the House at the first oppor tunity, though no time has been fixed for thoir consideration. The most important of these are the World's Fair Investigation resolutions reported by the Apnropriations Committee and the Special Columbian Ex position Committee. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the week, however, will be found in the proceedings of the House Coinage Commit tee, which ha3 made an order that discus sion shall closeandvotlngbegin at 11 o'clock Wednesday on the Bland free coinage silver bill. Since that order was made Mr. Bland has introduced a substitute for the bill named in" the committee's order, and the session of "Wednesday may possibly be ex hausted before the committee reaches a final vote on the question of reporting a free coinage bill tethe House. In this event an adjonrnment nntil the following day is not unlikely, as it can be positively stated to be tho intention of the committee to make its report to the House at an early day. OABZA. IS HOT DAHGIE0TJ3. Colonel TVheelaml Explains "Why (he Bandit Hai Not Been Captnred. Colonel J. M. AVhceland, of Ft. Stanton, N. M., passed through the city last evening bound for New Y'ork-. He said he was born In Pittsburg, nnd always approached this city with considerable sentiment. The Colonel has 'spent, the last 30 years on the frontier, but the lifo is glowing tiresome since there nre no more Indians to fight. "Garza is giving us some trouble along the Ikordcr," he continued, "but a great many stories about his revolution have been writ ten. Only the reports sent out about tho military operations are correct. The state ment that Garza had applied to Diaz for a pardon for himself and some of his leaders Is not true. He was the editor of a news paper in a small town near tho border. His followimr is not large, but he has gathered around him a lot of disgruntled Mexicans and a few Indians. People who know any thing about the country will readily understand why he Is not cap tured. The land is covered with liiijli saze brush, and 20,000 men wouldn't be ablo to And 1,000 unless they saw them. It Is very difficult In the underbrush to run him down, and he will probably continue his depredations for some time. Garza is try ing to stir up a revolntion against President Diaz. He might cause trouble if lie appeared in some or the towns and levied tiibuteon the bankers. About all the American troops can do is to see that the neutrality laws are not violated. The revolution is not consid ered serious. "Yes, I am glad there wilt be no war with Chile. The old men who fought from 1SG0 to '6t had no desire to enter into a second con test. The young fellows In tho army wero anxious for a brush with the Chileans for the prospect of promotion it would bring." BIG GOLD AND SILV2B FIDS. .Excitement Intense at Uto Pass, Colorado, and Property Climbs Up. Colorado Srnixos, Col., Fob. 7. Special Considerable excitement exists In this city on account orthe discovery of gold at Green Mountain Falls, 10 miles west of here, in the Ute Tass, on tho line orthe Colorado Mid land. It has long been known that gold ex isted in Uto Puss, but it has never been found in paying quantities. A month ago Prof. Kimball, or Sacramento, Cal whose invention or a magneto to discover the pretence of minerals threatens to revolu tionize mining, visited the pass and located heavy veins or both gold and silver, in and adjacent to the town. The town company was skeptical, but to prove the truth or his declarations, sank twrf or three shafts at points he indicated. In every case they found well. defined veins, nnd assays made to-day gave returns or $1C0 to SSCO. Five ounces of rock 1 educedby chemicals showed ft veiy flue button of pure gold. Prof. Kimball declares that within tho town limits Is the greatest silver deposit in the State. Encouraged by their Investiga tions thus far, the company is preparing for extensive developments under the direction of Mr. Kimball. Already the hills in the neUhborhond iiave been prospected and lo cated for claims. Gaeen Mountain Falls stock has jumped from $8 to $1.1 a share, nnd property there is in urcnt demand. The charming summer report of the Uto Pass seems to be on the verge of doveloping into a thriving mining town. WOU A BEIDE BY KATIJJG. A Maid "Who Did-Not Know TFhlcJi Lover She Liked the Best. North Plain; Coxs., Fob. 7. Miss Alice Grovcrand Richard .Paisons, of Milfington Green, wero married here last Monday even ing. This was the closing chnpter in a ro mance of what nas n skating, match. Rich ard Parsons and Alexander Royce, pros perous yong farmers, beznn two years azo paving attention to SIl'S Grover, n iio was 17 years old, very pretty and vivacious. Two weeks ago she told them that he believed she loved ono as well as the other nnd that she had decided to bestow her hand upon tho in.in who could prove himself most worthy of her in a -kating contest. Tills contest ynn to bo on Colton's pond, a milo from Millington Green, and to la-t two evenings. The skaters were to start altcr natclv from opposite sides of the pond at 7 o'clock and sfcato until 10. If between tho hours mentioned during the tno nights tho one failed to overhaul the other tlie contest was to go on every night until one of the men was caught. Tho shores or Colton's pond were lined with spectator when tho contest began and fires were burning around tlie pnnd. Miss Grover witnessed tlie strug gle. The flist night Parsons caught Royco atter nearly thien hours' skating. On the second evening Royce fniied in hN offorts and the referee declared Parsons the winner. AH.THaYEK! THETgave the Governor's chair to Boyd and tilled another aching void Chicago Tribune (It ). The United States Supreme Court says It Is Governor Bo d of Nebraska. Ah, Thayer! Hoston Herald (X). TiiATEit holds to the Republican policy of never leaving an office until thrown out. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (X.).. Governor Tuayer is now open to any political jobbery that presents itself. He has but SO days left for the enjoyment of stolen soods. Detroit Free Press (.). TnAYEBstandaby the State court in pref erence to the Supremo Court of the United States. State's rights may ynt becomo a Re publican dogma Kansas Cdy Times (.). Ex-Goverxois Tiiayir, or Nebraska, is sliowlnga very nasty spirit In holdidg tho gubernatorial chair against Boyd 11 f ter his claim has been adversely passed upon by tho Supremo Court. He might have como off the perch gracefully, but It appears he will have to bo yanked ott.Sl. Louis. Chron icle IU.). CUKIOUS CONDENSATIONS.; it fft The morphia habit is increasing in Paris at a terrible rate. A Fresno, CaL, man has obtained s- ' divorce because his wife was in the habit of mixing dough without first- washing her hands. I'ive hundred children under 10 years , i of nge have been taken into custody In twelve months iu London as drunk and in capable. The largest umbrella in the world was' recently made for an African king. It is 21 feet in diameter and is affixed to a staff of the same length. It is said that the human mouth is snrely but steadily moving towai d the lefe of" the face, owing to the tendency to chew with the teeth or tho left Jaw. The latest victim -of the whipping post in Delaware chewed tobacco while tha Sheriff was wielding the cat. and left tho poit with a broad grin on his face. The total annual production of paper' approximates 4000.000,000 ponnds;therc being over 4,500 paper mills in existence, repre senting a capital of some $303,000,000. Tourists who strike Cairo these days are in unusual luck. For 40 days after tho Khedive's death food is served with coffee) and cigarettes to all who visit tho tomb. y "While a man wa3 lecturing in Chatta- nooga, Tenn., a few nights ago to husband3, and urging them to treat their wives better, he was arrested on the charge of bigamy. A singular phenomenon latejy pointed outbutnotyet explained, is that the interior 01 a piece of mild steel may bo raised to the fusing" point while the outside remains solid. The printing of two centuries ago has Improved with age; that or to-day, It is feared, will, within 50 years, havo eaten its way through the pages upon which it 13 im pressed. The superstitious folks of Sandringhara now it seems remember that daring tho whole of the night before the Duko of Clar ence died the dogs howled iu an unusual manner. A fanner in North Carolina has a hog that measures 7 feet 6 inches in length and 7 feet 2 inches around the body. It is sofas that its eyes have been closed for about two months. What is said to be an undescribed book of devotions, printed by Lucas Brandis, of Lubeck; in 1483, in the Danish language, wasr recently discovered in the Royal Library aC Copenhagen. The latest architectural novelty in Chi. cage isa book-shaped block, 12 stories high, to be known a3 the Mercantile Register. This book will havo steel bindings with, terra cotta trimmings. The fact is that the avenage novel does not exceed 1,000 copies in itssale. Moreover, publishers fix that as a limit to their first! printing. A novel, like a book or short stones, is a risk, and every publisher knows It. "A gentleman in town the other day," reports the Los Angeles Optic, "had two artificial limbs, his left arm wa3 gone, and the fingers of the right hand were off. How ever, he seemed to movo along with but lit tle friction. Hen's thumb rings are no rarities to collectors. Some of the Roman specimens must have been cumbrous to wear, one In tho Montfaucon collection bearing the base or Trajan's consort, l'lotina, measuring over three inches across. There is an insect found in raw sugar. Out of 72 samples of raw sugar recently ex amined in London. 63 contained the "sugar Insect," bnt the examiner fonnd no speci mens of that parasite in the samples of re fined sngar which ho viewed. Recently, near Biverside, Cal., a tele phone wire, it is said, broke between two offices about 15 miles apart, and yet an or dinary conversation could be carried on over the wire after it was broken, though, the magneto bell would not ring. Twenty-four-carat gold is all gold; 22 carat gold has 22 parts of gold, lofsilver and 1 or copper; 18-carat gold has IS parts or gold, and 3 each or silver and copper; 12-carat gold is halfgold and has 3 parts or sliver andSK of copper. Its specific gravity is about 15; pure gold is 19. It seems that there is really a whistlin language. A French traveler, 31. Lajard, has written a work on tho snbject which hast just been occupyine the attention of tho Paris Academy of Sciences. It is in the". Canary Islands that people whistle instead, or speaking when they hold converse with, each other. A Scott county, Va., man, in the last stages of consumption, a few days ago or dered his coffin and had it brought to his room, where he inspected and approved it. lie then had it placed in an adjoining room aud paid for it. He has also made several other preparations for his death and funeral, which he expects will occur this month. In Long Island Sound, not far from tho north shore or the island, is clearly defined tho channel of an ancient river. As shown by the United States coast survey It is a gorge, having a depth of about 60 feet below tlie general floor of the sound on either sido or it. The gorge or channel was cut into the bedrock of gneiss, the erosion of which is exceedingly slow. Three years ago a young lady of Fall River, Mass., was hit upon tho left side of her head by a falling sign as she was wait ing along a street in Boston. This was fol lowed by brain fever. After somo weeks sho wnsas well in mind and body as ever, but from a right-handed person she had becomo so left-handed that she could neither cut, sew nor write with her right band. , In the 3Iiddle Ages the bride was led to church by the bridegroom's men, tha bridegroom by tho bridemaids; according to the Sarum missal, sops of wafers, immersed, in wine, were blessed by the priest and dis tributed to all the wedding company at tho conclusion or the ceremony, as previously stated an evident imitation of tho Koman "confarreation." A curions sequel to the great storm of last month is reported by the Victoria, B. C, Colonist from near Port Crescent, where fonr cattle were found by thoir owntrs a few days ago penned up by fallen trees in a, space about 25 feet square. They had ex isted in this prison for over a month, with no water except what they might havo se enred in the rains, and no food except the small urea of grass within tho barrier 01 logs. KnYMU.ES AND KHY3IELETS. 3Ir. Stranger Have yon no orphan asy lmu here? 3Ir. Granger "What do we need of snch an Insti tution? Under onr liberal divorce laws every child has more parents than he knows what to do-wlth.- 1-uet. An Irishman picked np a round bit of tin In the street. It looked like a coin, and he wa.ked into the nearest saloon and ordered a drink, put ting down the disk when lie had finished. Here!" said the barkeepers "this Is tin." Tin. is It."' said the Irishman. "Thin hev waa yuresllf.'' Judge. Deatii is the end-man of our show, For. ere the world be done. As each and all must surely know. He'll taWe off every one. Smith, Uray&CoStZtontMy. Jliss Coward "What a slovenly girl that James creature U. 3Iis8 Prlmeton Yes. "Why. the other !ay she lml actually forgotten to put on her glasses. b4, Justph Utilg Mux, She "loved not wisely but too well," Will do In poetry to tell. But talking common prose, you know. It very seldom happens so. Formaldcns now. If aked to wed. j Do not consult the heart, but head Your Income, sir, ab nit what slzef" They love not well, but Vcrywlse. x -A". Y.Usrald.' Tommy (to the visitor) 3Ir. Van OsdoL I think ) on look Just like George Washington. , - Mr. Van -OsOul (highly pleasertj-Tliar.k yon,-1' Tommy. I look like the Father of His country, do I? " - A Tommy Yes; your faUe teeth don't seem to lit you.' Chldtffo Tribune. Dolly (to visitor) "What is a fictitious " ",.. character, 3Ilss Green? n' Visitor One that is madcap, dear. - Dolly Aro you a fictitious character? Art tn AcUo ' , tertistng. I know you were not made to last, ., From the bills I have to pay; Bnt It's strange, yon disappear so fast " ' : "When you never get a weigh. . i- -Jiutj. '-- -:. Clothier Vhv did vou charge that mart'"'1' ' tfroraS5pa!rorpanU? New Clerk-He wanted a fj pilr. and the highest '' ' priced pants la the store are- S3 ones, so I gave hlta ' ' a pair of th'ose. --I'l-tUnl , Clothier You may consider your- salary -Tjp-aiaii i-itaacu iruiu iu iu Ji, liarpcr s JKUOTm ft 't 1 a t; iii 'I -. vyWrv.V
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